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Monthly Archives: November 2009

2009 Winter Pageant Review by Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

“Redmoon’s ‘Winter’ warms your heart” REVIEW | Season ticket: summer, fall, spring also take a bow

November 25, 2009
BY HEDY WEISS Theater Critic
hweiss@suntimes.com

Early on in Redmoon Theatre’s 2009 Winter Pageant, a girl arrives onstage carrying an old-fashioned suitcase. As she carefully lifts its locks and raises its lid the sound of birdsong fills the air. And […]

A Note on the Eve of Winter Pageant’s Opening

Dear Friends of Redmoon,

November 1st Redmoon returned from Washington DC – where we had an enormously successful journey – in the offices of our congressmen, senators, the NEA, and on the front lawn of, and in, the White House, where we presented work that our artistic team has collaboratively developed over several years: […]

2009 Winter Pageant Press Release

For Immediate Release November 7, 2009

WINTER PAGEANT 2009” AN EVENT FOR ALL AGES at Redmoon Central

November 2009, Chicago – After Redmoon’s Halloween performance at the White House October 31st, the company returns to its home in the industrial corridor of West Town to present its longest running spectacular tradition: Winter Pageant 2009. Redmoon has committed […]

Seth Bockley wins Jeff for ‘Best New Adaptation’

Longtime Redmoon collaborator Seth Bockley was nominated and won a Jeff award on October 19th, 2009 for ‘Best New Adaptation’ for the script of “Jon”. Here’s his 60 second acceptance speech, reproduced in its entirety:

“I want to dedicate this award to risktakers— first the great Chicago companies that against all odds and possibly good […]

Redmoon at the White House - Halloween 2009

When you get a phone call from the White House you’ve got to admit, it doesn’t matter who you are – it tends to make you feel pretty important.

That’s what happened to us. We got the call and it made us feel like we had conquered the world, that we had an opportunity to […]